... (P.s. Basham) reported that a wall at the back of Mr Cook's premises at Trosnant was in a dangerous state, and that North-road was ob- structed by heaps of ashes being placed there. It was resolved that tho surveyor should write to Mr Blunt about the wall. It appeared that the people in North-road bullied the scavenger for taking away the ashes, as they wished to keep them to sell. The sur- ...

... GALWAY, Sunday. It was hoped that the storm which raged with such fearful violence and did so much damage along the coast here, since Thursday evening up to yesterday (Saturday) morning had lulled, as the weather seemed to moderate m a great degree yesterday until towards evening, when, with the now of the tide it commenced to blow agani and continued muil eight o'clock this morning. The ...

... An unusually crowdtjd congregation attended the com- munion service at St. Paul's Church, Lorrimore-square, Wal- worth, on Sunday last, it having been announced that the sermon would be preached by the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie, vicar of St. Alban's, Holborn. With the exception that lighted candles and incense were not used, the communion service was conducted in high ritualistic form, a ...

... This matter has again been brought forward in the Court of Queen's Bench, and was an application by Mr. Charles Hay Frewen for a criminal information against a Dr. James Pattison, late of Welbeck-street, London, for certain libellous letters, and for threaten- ing to publish certain libellous matter. The case was this:— Dr. Pattison had attended the late Mrs. Frewen, who had suffered under ...

... MARK-LANE.—MONDAY. The grain trade to-day was in a very inactive state, and the quotations suffered a material reduction. The show of English wheat was only moderate, and the quality was inferior. There was a general absence of business, although both red and white produce was offered at a decline of 2s. to 3s. per qr. The show of foreign wheat was tolerably good. The demand was very dull, and ...

... COME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAIh FRIGHTENED OUT OF HIS WITS.—A strange story—stranger than fiction, as truth sometimes is— came from Wairoa—says a New Zealand paper. After eight days from the engagement at Moturoa, a missing man has turned up. On Saturday one of the garrison was out after horses, when he saw a man armed and accoutred as our men are. He cooeyed, but the poor half-demented man (as ...

... During the heavy rain which fell in the fore- noon of Friday, the 29th ult., two men, named Charles Ayres and John Parry, sought shelter under an archway near the coke ovens at the Glyu Furnaces. Owing to the long continuance of wet weather, the- arch suddenly fell in upon them. Ayres, who lived in the Estate-yard at Pontymoil, was killed on the spot; and Parry, who lived in Scotland-square, ...

... The Indian papers bring the unwelcome news that the famine so long dreaded is spreading fast in largely populated districts. The Government is making great efforts to deal with the distress inevitably occasioned, and to ward off its worst consequences. Private charity has been appealed to, but the general Govern- ment has made known to Sir William Muir its readi- ness to support the really ...

... HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—Female Com- plaints.—Climates have their particular disorders—age has infirmities peculiar to it; seasons have their specific diseases; but woman, in all climates, resulting from fashion, inattention, or debility of constitution. For all such sufferers there are in Holloway's remedies pre- sent ease and future comfort, while the natural function of every organ is ...

... ABERSYCHAN. A lecture in favour of Total Abstinence was deli- vered in the Bible Christian Chapel on Thursday, Jan. 28th, by Mr N. Smith, agent for the West of England and South Wales Temperance League. The lecture was entitled, The war we wage, the weapons we use, the victory we shall win. He described the war as being against animalism, ignorance, and prejudice the weapons as being personal ...

... By the arrival at Liverpool 011 Monday of the African mail steamer Biafra, we have details of the loss of the barque Florence Nightingale, of London, Captain Bright, and of the fearful sufferings of the passengers and crew. The Florence Nightingale left Bathurst, Gambia River, for Sierra Leone, on the 24th December, with seven females, two priests, two Kroo- men, and nine ship's crew. On the ...

... CADGWITH, NEAR HELSTON, Saturday. The lifeboat, Western Commercial Tramller, of the Na- tional Lifeboat Institution, was launched yesterday to the assistance of a disabled vessel (says the Rev. F. C. J acksoll). The ship, which was in the offing, seemed very unmanageable, and had a flag flying in her main rigging, which was supposed to be one of distress, and if the wind shifted farther to the ...